[geekmaster]

Originally Posted by knc1

Of course, over twenty years has brought a bit of automation to the process of writing an Ada application.

And people are using it for things other than embedded programming.

Create your own web site application in less than 5 minutes (3 minutes if you type fast):
http://www.youtube.com/embed/2VOZ4_p7h2o?rel=0

Ref: http://code.google.com/p/ada-awa/

And there are a LOT of people writing web site applications in COBOL too:
http://www.flexus.com/main/index.php...d=51&Itemid=61

And some people never got beyond the BASIC they learned in grade school. Web apps in Visual Basic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQcz2eb5rYg

For some old people, learning those "new fangled" things like HTML would be just too hard, when that antique computer language that they grew up with can be hacked and bent with glued-on libraries to do modern things.